Page 103 - The Miracle of the Honeybee

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How Did Bees Learn to Calculate?

As we have seen so far, bees calculate in various different ways and use
the Sun in doing so. It is quite impossible for an insect to know about the
movements of the Earth and Sun, to know the consequences, and act ac-
cordingly. It’s out of the question for bees to be getting these calculations
right every time by sheer chance. Nevertheless, all scientists who have re-
searched the subject agree that bees have indeed been performing these
calculations with complete accuracy for millions of years.
Unless someone has received the appropriate training, if he gets lost,
he’ll need some equipment such as a compass to find his way. It is almost
impossible for him to find his way by calculating the exact position of the
Sun. Yet despite the Sun being in constant motion, a bee can describe the
site it’s visited, in a flawlessly correct manner, to other bees in the hive.
How could these extraordinary abilities have come about? How did
bees learn to perform these calculations?
First, bees must have possessed an ability to find their way and to give
directions to other bees, ever since the moment they first appeared on
Earth. This ability is essential if they are to meet their needs for food and
shelter—and thus, for their very survival.
It is impossible for this ability to have developed over time by means of
various changes, as evolutionists would have us believe. Indeed, scientists
supporting the theory of evolution find themselves faced with the very
difficult question of how bees’ communication abilities came into exis-
tence. Richard Dawkins, one of the leading contemporary evolutionists, is
clearly “bewildered” by the question of the evolution of the bee dance, but
attempts to provide an answer in these faltering terms:
The suggestion is that . . . . Perhaps the dance is a kind of . . . . It is not difficult
to imagine . . . . Nobody knows why this happens, but it does . . . . It probably
provided the necessary . . . . We have found a plausible series of graded inter-
mediates by which the modern bee dance could have been evolved from sim-
pler beginnings. The story as I have told it . . . . may not be the right one. But
something a bit like it surely did happen. 85

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